Jean GEISER
Album photographique contenant 28 portraits d'Algériens finement rehaussés à l'aquarellePhotographic album containing 28 portraits of Algerians finely enhanced with watercolour
Alger [Algiers] s. d. [circa 1870]|13 x 17 cm|28 portraits sur cartes de visite consignés dans un album
Photographic album containing 28 portraits of Algerians finely enhanced with watercolour Photographic album comprising 28 photograph portraits, in contemporary albumen print, pasted on card in carte-de-visite format.
These photographs, well contrasted and finely enhanced with watercolour at the time, are of great intensity: the models stare at the photographer's lens with pride and nobility.
Binding in full black grained leather, metal clasp, all edges gilt. Rubbing.
Superb photographic testimony by one of the first European pho
Algiers [ca 1870] | Album: 13 x 17 cm / photographs: 6.3 x 10.4 cm | 28 carte de visite portraits in an album
These photographs, well contrasted and finely enhanced with watercolour at the time, are of great intensity: the models stare at the photographer's lens with pride and nobility.
Binding in full black grained leather, metal clasp, all edges gilt. Rubbing.
Superb photographic testimony by one of the first European pho
€3,500